Archives: Incidents
Date | Company | Accusation | City / Area / Country | Source | Tags | Media |
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26/08/2013 | (Supplier Of Old Navy) (Supplier Of Gap) | Investigation in unregulated subcontracting vendors finds multiple children manufacturing clothes. Some identified aged 12 and 14. Children earned as low as $32/month. | Bangladesh | Al Jazeera | Child Labor, Non-Living Wage, Occupational Hazard | |
18/09/2006 | Apple | Laboratory test reveals highest level of a type of toxic flame retardant, tetrabromobisphenol A, in Apple's MacBooks. | Denmark | Greenpeace | Negligence | |
18/09/2006 | Hewlett-Packard (HP) | Laboratory tests reveal high levels of toxic chemical decaBDE in HP laptops, despite HP claims of having removed decaBDE from its products years ago. | Denmark | Greenpeace | Consumer Deception, Negligence | |
18/08/2006 | Foxconn Technology Group (Supplier Of Apple) | Apple says report of labour conditions at unnamed iPod plant found workers did more than 60 hours a week a third of the time and worked more than six consecutive days 25% of the time. [Report criticised by a leading international trade union organisation for not being independently verified.] | China | BBC | Excessive Work Hours | |
26/06/2006 | Foxconn Technology Group (Supplier Of Apple) | Foxconn admits that their employees work about 80 extra hours each month, which is against the law in China. | China | China CSR | Excessive Work Hours | |
11/06/2006 | Foxconn Technology Group (Supplier Of Apple) | Newspaper reports that workers producing iPods receive as little as £27 a month, doing 15-hour shifts. | Longhua, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China | BBC | Excessive Work Hours, Non-Living Wage | |
31/03/2008 - 01/03/2008 | Taiway Sports LTD (Part Of Taiwan Diamond Group) (Suppliers Of Kering) (Supplier Of Puma) | Low wages, workhours between 10 to 12 hours/day, 62.5 hour workweeks during peak season among other violations. Workers expressed that they are "treated as pigs". | Dongguan, Guangdong, China | China Labor Watch | Discrimination, Excessive Work Hours, Forced Overtime, Non-Living Wage, Occupational Hazard, Unpaid Overtime | |
16/09/2014 | (Shell (Royal Dutch Shell)) (Motiva Enterprises) | Shell & Motiva ordered to compensate 2,677 employees for unpaid overtime back wages in 8 facilities - $4,470,764. | United States | US Department of Labor | Unpaid Overtime | |
12/05/2016 | Shell (Royal Dutch Shell) | Around 2,000 barrels worth of oil spilled in the Gulf of Mexico, near Shell's Brutus platform | Port Fourchon, LA, United States | The Guardian | Pollution | |
17/08/2015 | (Bayer) (Arkema) (FMC Corporation) (Honeywell) (Shell (Royal Dutch Shell)) (Rhône-Poulenc) (Rohm and Haas) (Occidental Petroleum Corporation) (Olin Corporation) (Lebanon Seaboard) (Union Carbide) (21st Century Fox) (Chemours) (Syngenta) | 16 companies ordered to clean up contaminated soil from pesticides and heavy metals at Superfund site operating from early 1930's until mid 1980's - cleanup costs $14.3 million & $945,000 past costs and future oversight. | Hagerstown, MD, United States | US Environmental Protection Agency | Pollution |